PRACTICAL FURNITURE
ROYAL COPENHAGEN PORCELAIN
FACTS ABOUT PLYMAX
"PLYMAX" IS THE REGISTERED TRADEMARK USED BY VENESTA
Limited as a trade name for plywood boards covered on one side
or both sides with metal. The metal generally used is galvanised
steel, but copper, aluminium, bronze, stainless steel and other
metals are also used.
This bonded material is said to be about sixty times as rigid as
sheet steel of the same weight. Double-sided Plymax is not
affected by changes of humidity and remains flat over a wide range
of temperatures.
Venesta Limited have just produced a book in which the properties
of this material, methods of working, comparative costs, are
clearly explained, and almost every question the designer or
architect would ask is answered in advance. A large number of
illustrations show the purposes to which Plymax has been success
fully put.
The address of Venesta Limited is Vintry House, Queen Street
Place, London, E.C.4.
TWENTIETH CENTURY PROBLEMS IN PRINT
THE "MONOTYPE RECORDER" HAS BEEN RUNNING A SERIES OF
articles under the general title "Twentieth Centur}' Problems in
Print," which has dealt in turn with the Time-table, the Menu,
and other special "problem pieces." In the current number the
book of verse is examined from the same functionalistic point of
view that was used for the railway time-table; but in order to test
its fitness for purpose Mr. Paul Beaujon, the author, examines the
essential differences between prose and verse in terms which are as
challenging to the general reader as they are to the printer. The
article ends with a set of original verses composed to illustrate
points of style such as the use of various standard word-spacings.
This is the annual book number of the Recorder, which always
includes a cross-index of the fifty books of the year chosen by the
Eirst Edition Club. This year's fifty contain only two that were
not set in "Monotype" faces. The leading article is entitled "The
16',6'78 Books of 1.935," and concentrates on relating all the best
effects of book production to the standards of the ordinary book,
to show what general improvement is taking place.
Publishers usually design their own publicity, and a collection of
such literature is as interesting and varied as any typographic
scrap-book could be. From a large collection in this field the
editor of the Monotype Recorder has "deduced some principles" in
an illustrated article which pays tribute to the "publisher's produc
tion man" as a person who, amongst many other jobs, often has to
write and lay out a difficult "composite advertisement" in the time
it might take an Agency group to argue over the punctuation of
a headline.
CHAIN DRIVES
THE TWO LATEST BOOKLETS ISSUED BY THE REYNOLD AND
Coventry Chain Co., Ltd., Didsbury, Manchester, are concerned
with Chain Drives in the papermaking and printing industries.
National Physical Laboratory tests show that Reynold Chain
Drives deliver 98| per cent, of the power transmitted. These
booklets are well illustrated and the information is given with an
economy of words.
HULL MUNICIPAL SCHOOL OF PRINTING
PRINTING IS A CRAFT WHICH ENTHUSES THOSE WHO FOLLOW IT AND
the pride taken by various printing schools in their Year Books
displays the zest of the students. We have just received the
specimen book of work done at Hull Municipal Technical College
School of Printing, and a very interesting time we have had in
examining it.
First to be remarked is the excellence of the machine work. The
section of half-tone and three-colour printing is at least equal to
the work of any printing school in the country. The only blemish
is the choice of two half-tone blocks of grouped photographs
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Moses with the Serpent
In Sang de Bosuf
Height 27J ins. A Striking model by JAIS NIELSEN Price £60
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